Fall fun
Bear Creek Mountain Ski Resort, 101 Doe Mountain Lane, Macungie, offers an Oktoberfest noon to 6 p.m. Sunday with German food and beer, music and dancers. Each guest will receive a free chair lift ride and hayride. Children can listen to stories, see a magician and have their face painted. Admission is $10, $5 per child 3-17. Call (866) 754-2822.
Playing with trains
Greenberg’s Train and Toy Show comes to the Greater Reading Expo Center, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The center is at 2525 N. 12th St., Reading. Model railroading seminars and layouts of different sizes and scales are some of the highlights. Admission is $7, free for children 11 and under, and is good for both days. Visit www.greenbergshows.com.
Plan a road trip
Just in time for fall foliage season comes a new-look www.visitpa.com. The site now offers interactive virtual tours of the best Pennsylvania has to offer this fall. Also, you’re invited to submit your own PA travel stories to share with other travel enthusiasts.
Photo by Mark C. Psoras
Performance art
Site-based choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace presents “CAR,” a Live Arts Festival show that involves a moving Chevy Caprice, dancers, video projections and an original sound score. Catch a free performance at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday in the Athletics Parking Lot, next to the Ward Building, at Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr. View a campus map at www.brynmawr.edu/campus/map.shtml. The Ward Building is building nine on the map. For more information, call (610) 526-5310.
Old school
The State Theatre also presents “A Night of Doo-Wop Rock ’N’ Roll Volume VI” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $35 and $40. For more information, call (800) 999-STATE or visit www.statetheatre.org.
‘Cav’ and ‘Pag’
It’s an Italian opera double feature as Teatro Lirico d’Europa performs Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s “Paliacci” (the one with the sad clown) at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Zoellner Arts Center, 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem. Tickets are $33 and $40. Call (610) 758-2787 or visit www.zoellnerartscenter.org.
Joel soul-alike
Big Shot attempts to recreate the feel of a Billy Joel concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Allentown Symphony Hall, 23 N. Sixth St., Allentown. Tickets are $35. Call (610) 432-6715 or visit www.allentownsymphony.org.
Today’s blues
The Bucks County Blues Society presents “Killer Guitar Thriller ’08” from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturday night at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge No. 2489, 920 Trenton Road, Fairless Hills. Performing will be Bryan Lee & The Blues Power Band, Alvin Jett & The Phat Noiz Band and the Skyla Burrell Blues Band. Tickets are $25, $30 at the door and includes snacks, door prizes and a costume contest. There’s a cash bar and you must be at least 21. Learn more about ticket sales locations by visiting www.bucksbluessociety.com; or call (215) 946-9424, (215) 946-4794 or (215) 943-1447.
Comic relief
Add a little laughter to the seriousness of election season with Mark Russell at 8 p.m. Friday at the State Theatre, 453 Northampton St., Easton. Tickets are $23 and $28. Call (800) 999-STATE or visit www.statetheatre.org.
Neo-flower power
The Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, presents an evening of folk, bluegrass, Americana and traditional Celtic to benefit the Phoenixville Area Business Association’s Flower Fund. Entertaining will be Hoots & Hellmouth, Old School Freight Train, Tin Bird Choir and Matt Brown at 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets range from $15-$25. Call (610) 917-1228.
Transcend borders
The Kauriga Balalaika Orchestra performs a concert of Russian, Ukrainian and Slavic folk music at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ocean City, N.J., Music Pier, Boardwalk and Moorlyn Terrace. Tickets are $5, free to children 12 and under. Call (609) 525-9300.children 12 and under. Call (609) 525-9300.
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